After a fairly long hiatus that lasted nearly four months, Emotet is back with an active spam distribution campaign. For a…
Tag: spear phishing
A week in security (September 2 – 8)
Last week on Malwarebytes Labs, we looked at a smart social engineering toolkit, delved into TrickBot tampering with trusted texts, and…
Everything you need to know about ATM attacks and fraud: part 2
This is the second and final installment of our two-part series on automated teller machine (ATM) attacks and fraud. In part…
No man’s land: How a Magecart group is running a web skimming operation from a war zone
Our Threat Intelligence team has been monitoring the activities of a number of threat actors involved in the theft of credit…
Leaks and breaches: a roundup
It’s time for one of our semi-regular breach/data exposure roundup blogs, as the last few days have brought us a few…
Ransomware isn’t just a big city problem
This month, one ransomware story has been making a lot of waves: the attack on Baltimore city networks. This attack has…
Threats target financial institutions, fintech, and cryptocurrencies
With news of a malware attack on accounting firm Wolters Kluwer causing a “quiet panic” in the accounting world this week,…
“Funky malware format” found in Ocean Lotus sample
Recently, at the SAS conference I talked about “Funky malware formats”—atypical executable formats used by malware that are only loaded by…
New critical vulnerability discovered in open-source office suites
A great number of attack techniques these days are using Microsoft Office documents to distribute malware. In recent years, there has…
Humble Bundle alerts customers to subscription reveal bug
You’ll want to check your mailbox if you have a Humble Bundle account, as they’re notifying some customers of a bug…